An automatic sugarcane fire detection and extinguishing system.

Abstract

The conventional methods used in Uganda like perching, and fire lookouts, and existing technologies of sugarcane fire detection that is satellite-based systems because of their long scanning cycle and low resolution are unreliable. Early warning and immediate response to a fire breakout are the only ways to avoid great losses and environmental damages. Hence, an advanced system for sugarcane fire detection and extinguishing using wireless sensor network is developed which overcomes the demerits of the existing technologies of sugarcane fire detection. This project consists of an Atmel chip the 8-bit ATMega328PU microcontroller in 28 pin DIP packages, water pump, Rf modules, sensing elements these include smoke sensor and infrared flame sensor; the smoke sensor to detect smoke that occurs in sugarcanes and infrared flame sensor to detect and respond to the presence of a flame and GSM module to send notification message to the firefighting station based on the nearest node. The objective of the project is to provide automatic detection and extinguishing on sugarcane fires. The system is real time, automatic, locates sugarcane fire points, deploys multiple sensor nodes and extinguishes fire.